President of the Meeting

” Dear colleagues and friends from around the world,

The World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS) welcomes you to our Seventh Scientific Meeting and the first joint meeting with The African Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (ASPCHS), taking place in Marrakesh, from the 15^th to the 19^th of June 2022 in Morocco.

The last two years have been both challenging and exciting when it comes to continuous surgical training. The calling of the WSPCHS has always been to ensure the highest level of management of surgical processes to all children with CHD around the world. As a result, these last two years marked the founding of the world university for pediatric and congenital heart surgery. The organization of this fantastic scientific meeting comes to complete the scientific purposes of both societies.

For the first time in the African Continent, this exceptional edition will be a wonderful opportunity to meet experts from all continents of the world.  Pediatric and congenital heart surgeons and colleagues from related specialties are joining us in this exciting program.

The program committee in collaboration with ASPCHS has chosen two relevant topics:

Tetralogy of Fallot from epidemiology to surgical management

Rheumatic heart diseases in pediatric population

In addition to these topics, two workshops will be organized:

• Aortic and Mitral Valve Workshop:
  • Echocardiography
  • Aortic and mitral valve repair: Hands on sheep model
• Tetralogy of Fallot workshop:
  • Echocardiography
  • Wet lab: Hands on 3D model.

It will be an opportunity to initiate African cardiac surgery residents to the distinctive pediatric and congenital aspects of their specialty.

For the benefit of children across the world, this meeting aims to exchange scientific information, networks, establish friendships, professional connections, and build strong collaborations between these sister organizations

On behalf of your Moroccan colleagues, I welcome you to Marrakesh.”

The Vision of the World Society is that every child born anywhere in the world with a congenital heart defect should have access to appropriate medical and surgical care.

The Mission of the World Society is to promote the highest quality comprehensive care to all patients with pediatric and/or congenital heart disease, from fetus to the adult, regardless of the patient’s economic means, with emphasis on excellence in education, research and community services.

The African Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (ASPCHS) is the scientific society of pediatric and congenital heart surgeons and allied specialists of Africa. The inception of ASPCHS followed a town hall meeting with a focus on Africa initiated by the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS) in May 2020. ASPCHS was thus developed through close collaboration with the WSPCHS. 

local Host

Drissi Boumzebra, Marrakesh, Morocco

Local committee

El Haouati Rachid, Marrakesh, Morocco

Zouizra Zahira, Marrakesh, Morocco

El Hattaoui Mustapha, Marrakesh, Morocco

Karimi Saloua, Marrakesh, Morocco

Slitine Nadia El Idrissi, Marrakesh, Morocco

Laaroussi Mohamed , Rabat, Morocco

Bencheikh Khadija, Agadir, Morocco

Chraibi Said, Casablanca, Morocco

El Mardouli Mouhcine, Marrakesh, Morocco

El Alaoui Mohamed, Marrakesh, Morocco

Benbakh Soukaina, Marrakesh, Morocco

WSPCHS Governing Council 2021-2022

ASPCHS officers

Past Meetings

2007	Washington DC, USA	Inaugural Scientific Meeting of the WSPCHS
2008	Montreal, Canada	World’s Summit on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery Services, Education and Cardiac Care
2009	Cairns, Australia	WSPCHS 2nd Scientific Meeting at the 5th World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (WCPCCS)
2010	Antigua, Guatemala	Special Multi-Societal Joint Meeting Dedicated to Aldo R. Castañeda
2010	Shanghai, China	WSPCHS Regional Meeting
2011	Istanbul, Turkey	WSPCHS 3rd Scientific Meeting
2012	Lima, Peru	Joint Meeting WSPCHS and Sociedad Latina de Cardiologia Y Cirugia Cardiovascular Pediatrica
2013	Cape Town, South Africa	WSPCHS Annual Members Meeting at the 6th WCPCCS
2014	Sao Paulo, Brazil	WSPCHS 4th Scientific Meeting
2015	Cartagena, Columbia	Joint Meeting WSPCHS, Sociedad Latina de Cardiologia Y Cirugia Cardiovascular Pediatrica, Sociedad Colombiana de Cardiologia
2015	Kyoto, Japan	WSPCHS Regional Meeting
2016	Abu Dhabi, UAE	WSPCHS 5th Scientific Meeting
2017	Barcelona, Spain	WSPCHS Annual Members Meeting at the 7th WCPCCS
2018	Orlando, USA	WSPCHS 6th Scientific Meeting
2019 2019	Sofia, Bulgaria Bali,	Joint meeting WSPCHS and European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) Indonesia, Bali symposium

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